The Umbrella Academy Season 1 Episode 1
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In 1989, forty-three women simultaneously give birth, despite showing no prior signs of pregnancy. Seven of the children are found and adopted by eccentric billionaire Sir Reginald Hargreeves, who raises them as a superhero team. Hargreeves calls the children by number, one through seven, but Grace, their android mother, gives them names. Years later the surviving children are grown, and reluctantly reunite for Hargreeves’ funeral. The monocle that he always wore is missing after his death, leading Luther (Number One) to suspect foul play. Number Five, who disappeared 16 years before, appears in a ball of blue energy, claiming to have returned from the future. He has his 13-year-old body but claims that he is fifty-eight years old. Tensions emerge among the siblings, and Diego gets into a fight with Luther that destroys a statue of their dead brother, Ben. Later, Five is visiting a doughnut shop when several armed men enter and open fire. After killing the men, he removes a tracker embedded in his arm. It is revealed that Diego has the monocle and that Klaus can talk to Ben’s ghost.
Years after they rose to fame as young crime-fighting superheroes, the estranged Hargreeves siblings come together to mark their father’s death.
Creators: Steve Blackman, Jeremy Slater
Director: Peter Hoar
Star Cast: Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Justin H. Min, Colm Feore, Ritu Arya, Jordan Claire Robbins, Kate Walsh
Producer (s): Kevin Lafferty, Sneha Koorse, Jamie Neese, Jason Neese, Ted Miller
Cinematographer: Neville Kidd, Craig Wrobleski
Music: Jeff Russo
Production House: Dark Horse Entertainment, Netflix, Universal Cable Productions, Borderline Entertainment
Original network / Official Sites: Netflix, NBCUniversal Television Distribution
Release Year: 15 February 2019 (USA)
Runtime: 59 min
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Language: English
On the same day in October 1989, forty-three infants are inexplicably born to random, unconnected women who showed no signs of pregnancy the day before. Seven are adopted by Sir Reginald Hargreeves, a billionaire industrialist, who creates The Umbrella Academy and prepares his “children” to save the world. But not everything went according to plan. In their teenage years, the family fractured and the team disbanded. Now almost thirty years old, the six surviving members reunite upon the news of Hargreeves’ passing. Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Vanya and Number Five work together to solve a mystery surrounding their father’s death. But the estranged family once again begins to come apart due to their divergent personalities and abilities, not to mention the imminent threat of a global apocalypse.